The Writer's Job Is The Job Of

Even Though We Now Have The Half-century-old New Constitution, There Is A Popular Sentiment Of Support For The Old One That Lives On In Reality In Some Quarters.

Paradoxically, The People And State Of Japan Living On Such Moral Props Were Not Innocent But Had Been Stained By Their Own Past History Of Invading Other Asian Countries.

I Think I Am Doing My Works To Link Myself, My Family, With Society — With The Cosmos. To Link Me With My Family To The Cosmos, That Is Easy, Because All Literature Has Some Mystic Tendency. So When We Write About Our Family, We Can Link Ourselves To The Cosmos.

After I Got Married, The First Child Born To Us Was Mentally Handicapped.

It Is The Second Job Of Literature To Create Myth. But Its First Job Is To Destroy It.